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Abdi

#10,701 in 2025Boys' name

Servant [of] + the, through Abdul

Abdi has been given to 350 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #10,701 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Abdi, 2025

1 in 553,000

Abdi over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abdi: meaning, origin, and history

Servant [of] + the, through Abdul

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abdi means

Abdi belongs to the name family reached through Abdi → Abdul. Its meaning is “servant [of] + the”.

Origin, language, and formation

Abdi is used in English and Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abdul.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 340 boys were recorded with the name Abdi between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2005; its best national rank was #3,937 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,980 in 2020 to #10,701 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,490 in 2015 to #10,701 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Abdi between 2001 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2001; its best national rank was #15,357 in 2001.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Abdi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,701
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abdi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abdi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abdis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abdi was born before 2010 — so the typical Abdi is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
340
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (143).

Is Abdi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,936
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,721
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,211
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.1%
Peak was 2005 (23)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,937
2005

Spellings of Abdi

Abdi is not the most common spelling — Andy is, with 30.6% against Abdi's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Abdi is used

Across 1910–2025, Abdi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,918,510 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Abdi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abdi around the world

Where Abdi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • France
    1982–2022
    #5,234
    in 2022
  • Norway
    1880–2015
    #395
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1994–2008
    #2,611
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Abdi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,701
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,721
Best rank ever
#3,937
2005
Peak year
2005
23 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
340
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,357
2001
Peak year
2001
5 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abdi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Abdi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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